Naveen Michaud-agrawal
Senior Engineer, Internal Alpha Capture at Point72
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNaveen Michaud-Agrawal is a senior quantitative engineering leader with 19 years of experience designing and building research-to-production platforms for alpha signal generation, portfolio construction, and risk analytics. Currently at Point72's Internal Alpha Capture team, he combines hands-on engineering with close collaboration with researchers and traders to deliver high-performance data feeds and execution-ready systems. He previously led and scaled quantitative engineering teams at Balyasny, architecting research and reporting platforms for risk and research groups. An active open-source contributor, Naveen has improved UI components and large-data tooling in projects such as Lumino, Perspective (Apache Arrow integration), and the PUDB debugger, showing strength across front-end, full-stack and back-end domains. His background in computational biophysics and early work on MDAnalysis reflects a long-standing ability to translate complex scientific problems into reliable, optimized software. Colleagues value him for bridging deep technical craftsmanship with pragmatic delivery in high-stakes financial environments.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Theoretical & Computational Biophysics, Master of Science (MSc), Theoretical & Computational Biophysics at The Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBachelors of Science, Computer Science with minors in Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science with minors in Neuroscience and Biochemistry at Pennsylvania State University
Github Skills (37)
data-visualizations10
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
python10
molecular-simulation10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
computational-chemistry10
urwid10
mdanalysis10
ui-design10
numpy10
apache-arrow10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
Jan 2008 - Oct 2012
MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics simulations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Computational Chemistry Analyst
Back-end Developer & Computational Chemistry AnalystContributions:2 reviews, 56 commits, 9 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Naveen contributed to the MDAnalysis library, primarily focusing on adding example usages and fixing bugs within the core DCD file reading and AtomGroup functionalities. Their work involved implementing and optimizing algorithms related to molecular dynamics analysis, including recentering coordinates and calculating distances. The user also added functionality for RMS fitting and implemented center-of-mass calculations, demonstrating a focus on core analysis capabilities.
molecular-dynamics-simulationmolecular-dynamics-simulationspython-librarypythonscience
jupyterlab/lumino
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Lumino is a library for building interactive web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 23 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Naveen primarily contributed to the development and improvement of user interface elements within the Lumino library, a project for building interactive web applications. Their work focused on enhancing the DataGrid component, including implementing features like minimum size configuration and text eliding. Further contributions involved improving the TabBar and DockPanel components, adding functionalities such as double-click title editing and an add button.
web-applicationsjavascriptjupyterlabjupyterlumino
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